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The Exeter Advocate, 1895-4-26, Page 6$u) serlbers who donet reoatrs their paper promntle win please nelity es at Daae, Advert -haw rater: en apptleetien, THE EXETER ADVOCATE. THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1895. Week's Commercial Summary. There wore 27 failures in the Dominion Last week, 71ess than corresponding week last year, and 16 less than previous week, Further advances in Ontario wheat are noted. Sales of white were made on the highest Northern at 70o,which is the h quotation in abot two years, There is apparently a great scarcity of this cereal in the province. Cable report a firmer market for cattle in Great Britain,. The finest steers are qucted at 12c to 12eo in Liverpool. The prospects are good for the shipment of cattle to France on the opening of navi- gation at Montreal. After a perceptible improvement due to stronger cables and larger purchases of wheat for export in New York, as well as a decrease in the visible supply much larger than was expected, the market re- acted beeause of a bear raid in Chicago. The Easter cattle market at Toronto has surpassed the record within the memory of veteran cattle dealers, Butchers' cattle have sold readily at four cents a, pound, and cattle for exportation have been herd to get at from four and a half to five gents. The fire waste in Canada and the Unit- ed States for March is estimated at $14,- 289,300, as against $9,147,100 the same month of last year, and $16,662,350 in March, 18.43. The most disastrous fire last month was the one in Toronto, the total loss of which is estimated at §1,140,- 000, 1,140,-000, There is no change in the trade situa- tion at Toronto. Merchants are not so busy as they should be at this season; for such state of things the weather is blamed to some extent. The feeling of hopefulne rs reported a week ago is still apparent, and prospeo"s are said to be good. The steady advance in prices in a number of commodities is a factor of some importance. First, the wool market strengthened, the hides went up, which has been followed by a big advance in wheat, and lassly, within a few days, there has been a substantial rise in both crude and refined ails. These advances are evidences of an improved demand and augur well for future trade. Director Blue, in his fourth annual re- port of the Bureau rf Mines, states that the gold fields of the province are attract- ing greater notice, and says that during tf e past year, the Rain Lake region es- pecially, drew many explorers and capitalists towards it. Numerous dis- coveries of gold -bearing ore are reported there. Four or five locations are being actively developed, and one gold mill is nearly ready for operation. In the Lake of the Woods district, the mine and mil on Sultana Island have been worked con- tinuously. The nickel and copper mines in the Sudbury region were actively worked during the year, and the produc- tion of matte was much larger than in either of the preceding two years. Mr. Blue has sanguine hopes that the iron in- dustry will assume active form in the province this year. Here and There. The principles of others we call preju- dices ; our own prejudices are principles. xxx If everybody paid his bills on time what would become of the collectors? xxx It is estimated that a regular writer for a daily paper writes 40,000 a year on an average. xxx Unfortunately the man who has noth- ing to say isn't always conscious of it until he has tried to say it. xxx Human beings are by nature fighting animals. The very babies are up in arms as soon as they come into the world. xxx A conscienceless tenant and a tramp with a ragged coat are very much alike —they are each oblivious of the back rent. X x X The figures of the Immigration Restric- tion league show a decrease of 150,000 in the number of immigrants during the past year. xxx Glass brushes are used by the artists who decorate china. They are made of glass fibers so thin that they seem like spun silk. xxx The old man of the sea is generally baldheaded and sits in the front row. Doubtless the big bonnets have driven him there. xxx The share of land falling to each in- habitant of the globe, in the event of a partition might be set down at twenty- three and one-half acres. xxx It isn't necessary to be so very partic- ular about which plumber to run for these cold nights when the pipes burst. Any of them will fill the bill. xxx It is the little things that make up life, and the little mistakes have as much effect as the little good deeds. There is no thought or act but has effect for good or ill. xxx When a savings bank is allowed to hold. a single deposit of more than $100,- 000, as in the case of Connectiout.it fails of its true function as the repository of savings. These two desirable qualifications, pleasant to the taste and at the same time effectual,are to be found in Mother Graves' Worm. Exterminator, Children like it. Dr. Carson's Stomach Bittern. Mr:' J. Martin, notary public, King street east, Toronto, writes and says : "I was suffering from dyspepsia, sour stomach and torpid liver for years. I was advised to try Dr. Carson's Stimaeh Bitters, which I did, and a few bottles have completely cured me." 50 cents per bottle. For sale by druggists—there 4S none as good ; the only Dr. Carson's Stomach Bitters, Allan & Co., 58 Front street east, Toronto, proprietors In Colorado a wife was granted a de- cree because her husband oat off„ her bangs,,. NEWSY CANADIA .c1 e,ji the act X g toured an o' "':ion ists now cen- t i+t probableu fop of"'' Wit, ceof the Drib ,. art.d. x widow. t f thee:' eneasedY ssue • a writ age est 'the tad0, writ to ro- eleebee-ilue.on a'Issue of the said THE WEEK'S HAPP nterestingItemtt and Incidents, Import. ant and Instructive, Gathered from the various. Provinces.. The name of the Hamilton. Beach post- oflioe hasbeen changed to Elsinore Park.. Mr, George Betts of Chathamblew his brains out with a gun while temporary insane, There is still no trace of Farr, the 0,P. attempting R. engineer charged with p tin g Winnipeg, -` arson at The first bonded car on the T., H. & B. Railway arrived in. Hamiltonfrom Brant- ford Tuesday morning, The ice on the St. Lawrence in front of Montreal broke up Monday morning, and the channel is now free. The Legislative Assembly was pro- rogued Tuesday afternoon by his Honor the Lieutenant -Governor. The Rev. James Gordon, M.A., late treasurer of the London Presbytery, died Tuesday, aged. sixty-eight. Mr. McAdams, an aged farmer, who lived. near Paris, was struck by a train while driving into Brantford and killed. A. man named Turner committed sui- cide et Straithclair, Man., by taking a dose of strychnine, He was mentally deranged. The twelve convicts from Now West- minster Penitentiary being transferred to Stoney Mountain arrived at Winnipeg Tuesday. Farr, the engineer arrested at Winni- peg on a charge of trying to burn up Ms dwe.ling and family, escaped from the police station. The International Radial Railway Co. gives notice in The Canada Gazette of an application to the Dominion Parliament for a charter. A great deal is being said in London in favor of selling eggs by weight. Shop- keepers do not look on the proposal with any great favor. Jacob Bock, an old and highly -esteem- ed resident of Port Elgin, committed sui tide by hanging himself to a beam in the loft of his stable. The steamer Numidian, which arrived at Halifax on Monday from Liverpool, brought 70 orphan boys, destined for Western. Canada. The weather throughout Manitoba con- tinues to be very favorabl a for seeding and the majority of the farmers now have their crops in. The boot and shoe manufacturers of Montreal have decided, owing to the ad- vance in the price of leather, to increase the price of footwear. Engineer Farr of Winnipeg has been arrested on a charge of attempting to burn the house in which his wife and childr n were sleeping. The citizens of Chatham intend to cele- brate its incorporation as a city on Do- minion Day. They will invite the Gov- ernor-General to be present. Twelve of the most dangerous convicts in the Westminster, B.C,, Penitentiary have been transferr, d to the Stony Mountain Penitentiary in Manitoba, Mr. Matthew Miller was overpowered by gas in the King street sewer at Lon- don and suffocated. Two other . men working with him had narrow escapes. The extradition of Mrs. Mack, who is alleged to be implicated in the postage stamp swindle in Hamilton, has been asked for by the United States authorit- ies. A sample of ginger wine bought in a London store, where only temperance beverages was supposed to be sold, was found to contain 10 per cent. of proof spirits. The jury in the case of Mr. John Flynn, who was found dying at Shallow Lake the other day, returned a verdict that the fatal wounds were inflicted by persons unknown. Large proportions are being assumed by the butter export trade of the British - Australian colonies. From July to February Vietoria alone shipped 20,000,- 000 pounds. Three Canadians, of Fort Erie, are hard at work digging up the ruins of the fort searching for a chest of gold said to have been buried by Major Buck during the war of 1812. A gale from the northwest was severe- ly felt in the Lower Provinces and in Quebec. A fleet of vessels was detained in the Halifax harbor waiting for the storm to abate. A telegraph messenger boy in Pem- broke named John Harvey was caught in the belting of the machinery in Beatty's sash factory in that town, and was killed almost instantly. Mr. Casper W. Whitney, correspon- dent for Harper Bros., who is on a hunt- ing expedition in the far north, left Fort Resolution on February 20, and has not been heard of since. The Anglican churches held their usual Easter Monday vestry meetings. The reports were satisfactory as a rule, though the depression of the past year was men- tioned in a few annual statements. The annual meeting of the supreme governing body of the Order of the Sons of Scotland, known as the Grand Camp, opened at Niagara Falls Tuesday morn- ing. There was a large attendance. Mr. Joseph Bourgue, contractor, of Hull, Que., has been served with notice of an action, charging him with giving bribes to ofi.cials of the Hull corpor- ation for the purpose of obtaining civic contracts. The local papers in Kingston are call ing attention to the fact that for some months the eity has been deluged with books, pamphlets, and prints of a most immoral natural, which are sold by the newsboys. The body of Pte. Daniel Shea, of the Thirteenth Battalion, Hamilton, was found in the bay below Dundnrn park, Hamilton. He had been missing since last Thanksgiving Day. Am inquest is to be held, It is understood that the negotiations between the Newfoundland delegates and the Dominion Cabinet Committee look- ing to confederation will result in 'an early agreement on the main points sub- mitted. The delegates sail for home on Tuesday. A Halifax dispatch says the warships Pelican, Buzzard and Cleopatra are ex- pected there from Bermuda next week. After remaining a few days they go to Newfoundland on fishery protection sere ,rice. The Tourmaline now at St, Jan's, will be relieved by the Pelican.,. Negotiations are in progress for the Ol k u zstj late a x it Maria Caleb Ancient cover $2,00 fieiary certifi Caleb Hartle At the meeti° P�t�'Cl �+?r#"Woe Tuesday evenin Hamilton Electric ii- pany offered to light y for 25-. a light per night, Se less than the present rate, providing a contract was entered into for five years. The rate was $91.25 a year, and would mean a saving of about $4,000 a year to the city, The board promised to consider the offer. The thirty-fourth annual meeting of the Ontario Educational Association and the second meeting of the Dominion Edo- rational Association were commenced Tuesday in the Model and Normal schools in Toronto. About 400 delegates were present from all partsof the Dominion. A reception was held in the evening, at which addresses were delivered by promi- nent educationalists, and was succeeded by a largely attended ounversazione in the departmental buildings. There has been a rapid advance in cattle in the life stock markets in To- ronto during the past two or three weeks. Tuesday at the Western cattle yards shipping cattle were quoted as high as 5 to 51 -Sc per pound, and butchers' cattle of good quality sold easily at 40 to 41.4o per pound for choice cattle. This is an advance in the best grades of nearly two cents per pound within a month. Hos are much higher, having advanced en about four weeks from $4.40 to $5.25 per cwt. for the best hogs. ANOTHER SWINDLING DEVICE. A new device to swindle farmers is in operation in parts of the Western'States, and will doubtless soon be experimented with in Ontario, if it be not already on trial. A couple of men come along who purpose to paint advertisements on a farmer's barns or fences, and they offer a small sum for the privilege. A bargain is struck, the men do their painting, and pay what they agreed. Of course they must get a receipt to show their emplo3- ers how the money was spent, and they produce a receipt book, The farmer signs, and the painters go. A couple of months later the "receipt" turns up in a nearby bank as a note for $200 or $800. Or. Carson's Cough Drops. Mrs. Henderson, 32 Cameron street Toronto, writes : "I was suffering from pleurisy and bad Dough. I was wasted and very weak, having • to be propped up in bed: I was told to try Dr, Carson's Cough Drops. Six bottles restored me tc perfect health." Priee 50 cents. For sale by druggists everywhere. Allan & Co., proprietors, 53 Front street east, To - ionto. Glad Tidings of Great Joy. There could be no gladder tidings than news of a cure of consumption. Miller's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil cures consump- tion and every disease of the lungs and respiratory organs. Why ? Beeause it supplies new blood to the exhausted sys- tem, thus giving a new lease of life. Mil- ler's Emulsion is made from the Oil of the Norwegian Cod Liver, and in con- junction with hypophosphites of lime and soda forms the greatest vitalizer of the age. Miller's Emulsion is the great nerve strengthener and blood maker, and cures coughs, colds, bronchitis, scrofula and all lung affections. In big bottles, 50e and $1, at all drug stores. A living specimen of the lamest and most deadly snake known (Ophiophagus eiaps) has been added to the zoological gardens of London It grows twelve to fourteen feet in. length, and is hooded like the cobra. It occurs in India, Burma and the East Indian archipelago, living in for- ests and jungles and readily climbing trees. Why will you allow a cough to lacerate your throat or lungs and run the risk of filling a consumptive's grave, when, by the timely use of Bickle's Anti -Consump- tive Syrup the pain can be allayed and the danger avoided. This syrup is pleas- ant to the taste, and unsurpassed for re- lieving, healing and curing all affections of the throat and lungs, coughs, colds, bronchitis, etc., etc. The original home of the bison was in the Great Salt Lake valley. Mr. Thomas Bell, of Messrs. Scott, Bell & Co., proprietors of the Wingham furni- ture factory, writes : "For over a year I was not free one day from headache. I tried every medicine I thought would give me relief, but did not derive any benefit. I then procured a bottle of Northrop & Lyman's Vegetable Discov- ery, and began taking it according to di- rections, when I soon found the headache leaving me, and I am now completely cured," The horse's eye has a thick, glutinous secretion, because his eye being large and much exposed to dust, the viscid secre- tion cleanses it more effectually than would a more watery agent. Parmelee's Pills possess the power of acting specifically upon the diseased organs, stimulating to action the dor- mant energies of the system, thereby re- moving disease,.. In faet, so great is the power of this medicine to cleans and purify that diseases of almost every name and nature are driven from the body. Mr. D. Carswell, Carswell P.O., Ont., writes : "I have tried Parmelee's Pills and find them an• excellent medi- cine, and one that will sell well." The eyeball is white because the blood vessels that feed its substance are so small that they do not admit the red cor- Have you tried Holloway's Corn Oure ? It has no equal for removing these troublesome excresences, as many have testified who have tried it. Stub Ends of Thought. Cupid is not an intellectual being, A newspaper is the diary of history. An idle brain is thea anarchist's work- shop. It isn't a man's characterthat inakes a woman love him. Take care of the dollars and the world will: take care of you. WHAT UNCLE SAM IS AT,. DOINGS OYER THE UNE. the Past, tory of -the' James. W Herald die House, Ne, Prof scir bora have Done during n Making the Bir- d. The Chicago Times lexy at the Holland t.wight Dana, author and f Yale University, died very y Sunday night. Many rivers in New Hampshire, re, affect- ed by recent rains, have risen so hi gh as to necessitate the shutting down of many m. The Senate of Florida has adopted a. resolillsution sympathising with the Cuban "patriots" in their efforts to free Cuba from foreign control All the convicts who escaped from Matteawan Lunatio Asylum have been captured. Perry, the notorious express robber, was the last to be captured. James Duffy, an ex -steward on the White Star Line, jumped from the Brooklyn bridge. He turned over several times as he went down, and struck the water on his side. He never rose. New York furriers claim that the smuggling of valuable furs by the agents of a Quebec furrier across the Canadian border has cost the United States Gov- ernment $50,000 a year for the last three years. The floods throughout the New Eng- land States Tuesday reached a higher point than has been recorded for many years. Millions of dollars' worth of prop- erty has been destroyed, and thousands of persons have been thrown out of em- ployment. Mr. Morgan, chairman of the United States Senate Foreign Relations. Com- mittee, in an interview, said that he be- lieved that Great Britain's object in her quarrel with Venezuela was to obtain possession of the gold fields of that country, and that the Monroe doctrine ought to be enforced against her. San Francisee is shocked at the mur- der of a second woman in the Emmanuel Baptist Church. On Friday the mutil- ated remains of Minnie Williams were found in the minister's room, and Mon- day morning the body of Blanche Lamont was found in a small room in the steeple. The two girls had been friends. Dr. George Gibson, pastor of the church. was taken into custody, and a young medical student, Theodore Durant, who was last seen with Miss Lamont near the church, is suspected, but the police are unable to find him. FOREIGN. The Empress of Germany is ill with influenza. The steamer La Gascogne, from Havre to New York, brought 1,440,000 francs for Cuba. The Czar has refused to abolish the law prohibiting Jews from living within fifty versts of the Russian frontier. A monument to Corot, the painter, is to be erected in the Parc Monceau, Paris. It will take the shape of a mural foun- tain. Steam street railways are more com- mon in Italy than in any other country. There are now nearly 2,003 miles of such lines. Tremendous prices are being paid in London for prime poultry. A goose or a pair of ducklings cost a guinea (about $5,2 Pet5)itions containing 70,000 nines have already been presented in the British Parliament against the proposal to dis- establish the Welch Church. A daughter of Sir Roderick Cameron was robbed of a box containin g jewels and money worth £400 in the Victoria Street Station, London, England. The Paris Figaro gives currency to a rumor that Dr. Nansen, the Arctic ex- plorer, has discovered the North Pole, and that it is situated on a chain of mountains. With a view to fostering British trade with Japan, The British Trade Journal will issue in that country a regular quar- terly edition. It will be printed in the Japanese language. .. Despatches received at Calcutta from Simla say that Umra Khan's brother, who attempted to oppose the advance of the British troops upon Chitral, has been captured by the friendly Khan of Dir. It is reported in London that Prince Alfred, the eldest son of the Duke of Edinburgh, is likely to be betrothed to the young Queen Wilhelmina of Holland. He is twenty-one years of age, and she is fifteen. Peat is being successfully used as fuel for engines in some parts of Continental Europe. Experiments are being made in Germany to extract gas from peat, in which a considerable amount of energy is stored. Arrangements are being made for try- ing aluminum launches on a large scale in the French navy. The Aluminum Company at Neuhausen, Switzerland. has been giving an extensive order for necessary material. The Tokio newspapers announce that at the conference between the Peace Com- missioners on Monday Vieeroy Li Hung Chang submitted China's reply to Japan's proposition, whereupon an agreement on the subject was reached. A severe earthquake was felt through- out Austria, Italy and adjacent parts of Europe Monday, which did serious dam - ego to churches and buildings of all kinds. At Trieste 31 shocks . were felt in seven hours, and several persons were killed by falling walls. ' Out of 253,177 recruits incorporated into the German army in 1893, therre -were 617 who did not know how to read `and write, or 24 in 10,000. In France, during the same year, among 348,651 conscripts, 22,096 did not know how to read and write, or 643 in 10,000. The British Channel squadron, eight Italian men-of-war, and three or four Australian ships will be included among thd hundred or so war vessels that will be assembled in Diel harbor at the open- ing of the Baltic canal The cost of the great Hamburg banquets to which about 500 guests will sit down on,,thet occasion, is to be defrayed by the Imperial Trea- sury. Bed and table linen should not be allowed to remain . from year to year without being used, fot it *finest all the longer for an occasional washing, as well as being a far better color. The giraffe has a tongue almost eighteen inches long. The Rose and Thorn. She was no longer a rosebud, Indeed, she was in full bloom, and had been so through several seasons, But she had money, and he loved her, How often men do that, way. Oh, Money, thou art honey. So, as the time wore on and she grew no younger, his heart throbbed more and more until he stilled its throbbing by proposing to her. He was so sure of her, at her time of life, that anything but a prompt accept- anoenever ocourred to him. What was his intense, nay painful, surprise, then, to hear her say she was very much obliged to him for the kind- ness, but s , really she must. decline. "Oh, why, why?" he pleaded in heart- broken tones. "Because Ido not love you," she ans- wered. •Bat you can learn to lave me," he said, coaxingly. "I think not," she persisted: "Oh, yes, you cane.' he exclaimed, grabbing at her lily white hand, "' One is never too old to learn, you kaow," How he ever escaped alive, it is no part of the chronicler's business to ex- plain. This is no detective tale. The Marrying Question. The great question which the men and women of to -day have to face in connec- tion with the growing freedom of women is its effect on marriage and .ultimately upon population. There has never yet been a time in the world's history when marriage was not the end and aim of wo- men in general. Even in England to- day the factory girl of 17 marries a youth not much older, and both go on working., }hit the factory girl in Ameri- ca, with her quicker intelligence and bet- ter education, is not willing to marry at 17 or at 2), or at any age unless she bet- ters her condition. Of course, as a rule, she falls in love, sooner or later, and mar- ries the man of her choice, without much thought of the future. Yet the trend of oonversation among girls in this country who can earn their living by any kind of low-priced labor is against marrying a man who has not some money saved, or who is not drawing good wages from a steady job. In other words, the girls here do for themselves what mothers and fathers in other parts of the world vainly endeavor to do for their children: If girls continue to oust men from all sorts of lighter manual labor, such as type- writing, working in drygoods stores or offices, as at present they seem likely to do, the men thus displaced must either find now fields of employment or accept a lower rate of remuneration in the old ones. But in either case the tendency will be -to check early marriage, or, in other words, to raise the age average. So that the industrial emancipation of wo- men, independent altogether of her legal emancipation, must ultimately prove the most disturbing factor in the recent rela- tions between the sexes." Beading the Character by the Face. Men with noses that, when viewed in profile, appear arched, are usually witty and clever in conversation. A prominent nose and bold chin are the most favorable combination known to the physiognomist A well -arched forehead. with one slight perpendicular wrinkle, belongs to a wise and discreet character. Indulgence in bad tempers may stamp them on the face so indelibly that they appear natural eharacteristies. Noses with wrinkles on the sides,which never entirely disappear, generally be- long to money -getting natures. A forehead which in the upper part projects, and in the lower sinks in to- ward the eyes, shows mental weakness. The upper part of the countenance is the seat of thought, labor and resolution; the lower half indicates action. Long foreheads, with close -drawn skin which shows no wrinkles, are the char- acteristics of cold, selfish natures. When the corners of the mouth tar L downwarl, the indication is of a sc,rn- ful, contemptuous, opionative man or woman. Turned -up noses under high, arched foreheads are found only in men of des- potic temperament and bad disposition. Regular wrinkles of the forehead par- allel with the eyebrows are generally found in very intelligent and deliberate persons. Horizontal eyebrows, full and regular, show great understanding, deliberation and capacity fur planning and execu- tion. Prominent arched eyebrows show great powers of perception in regard to form and color ; all great painters had such brows. Large noses are invariably associated with strong traits of character ; whether good or bad is determined by other char- acteristics. People of good sense, delicacy and re- finement have eyelids that are sharply defined, and shade at least half the upper part of the eye. Black, sparkling eyes, with a steady, grave mouth, show taste, elegance, sound judgment, and often an ungenerous dis- position. A face which does not change expres- sion in oonversation indicates either caution or stupidity, according to its other characteriseics. The eyes should be distant from each other exactly the breadth of one eye ; a greater distance indicates stupidity ; a less, low cunning. The following postic appeal won for its author, the editor of the Rocky Moun tain Celt, the prize of $1,000 offered for the best anneal poem to newspaper men to pay up their subscriptions : " Lives of poor- men oft remind us honest men won't stand a chance. The more we work there grow behind us bigger patches on our pants. On our pants, once new and glossy, now are stripes of different hue, all because subscribers linger and don't pay us what is due. Then let us be up and doing ; send in your mite, however Snivel, or when the snow of win- ter strikes us we shall have no pants at all." Cannot Be Beat.—'Mr.. D. Steinbach, Zurich, writes : " I have used Dr. Thomas' Eclectrio Oil itt my family for a number of years, and I can safely say that it cannot be beat for the etre of croup, fresh outs and sprains. My little boy heti had attacks of croup several tithes, •.,and one dose of Dr. Thomas' E,lectrie Oill was sufficient for a 'perfect cure. I take great pleasure in recom- mending it as a family medicine, and I would not he without a bottle in my house." RUSH OF AN AVALANVHR. Perlia of Travel )n !Snow Mountains o;t• British Columbia.. Imagine if you can the very roughest• bit of nature you have ever seen, or take: a newspaper, crumple it into•& ball, and placing it on a table suppose all its raised` parts tobe peaks, and the hollows ravines., picture the sharp edges more or less tim- bered, the hollows bare, smooth, or steep, as the roof of the steepest house you know - of, and you have an idea of the . moun- tains and gorges of the Sloe in, Let us suppose we are standing near - the summit of one of these zidges on a bright, sunny day in January. It haw. been continually days, da s, and the"beautiful" lies inlenteot p is profu- sion everywhere, six to eight feet deep in the timbered ridges, and any depth you like in the ravines; the sun gets warmer; up above you, near the crest of the moun- tain, little bits of crystals detach them- selves and go rolling down the slope; a. tiny crack forms at your feet and widens, across the gulch ; in an instantthe whole. nowy mass is in motion, and with ahiss- ing, rustling sound and an upheaval along its edges, goes hurling down the. gorge. Faster and faster it glides ; the air is filled with snowy spume ; where you stood it was a rivulet ; a thousand feet.. below it is a mad torrent ; the noise in- creases as it gains momentum. Rocks are torn loose, broken to atoms, or ground to powder, trees upro ted and'. broken to pieces, logs smashed to splin- ters. At half a mile on its path it pre- sents a crest of twenty or thirty feet in height and moves faster than an express. train ; woe betide any living thing in its way now. Nothing made by man can. stand before it, the wind of its creation is a hurricane, a cloud of snow and dust. f, llows in its wake ; in a eeething torrent. it pours over rook and precipice, and moving resistlessly on leaves in its track broken and crushed fragments of rocks. and trees and the smooth and polished: grasses in the gorge. The thunder dies; is gone; and the avalanche is passed. Down at the foot of the slope. a mile away, mountains of snow tossed up in,' hopeless chaos, a wild tangle of rooks, earth, trees and logs remain to mark the> slice, and often, alas ! too often, the bod- ies of brave men are caught in its icy embrace. All around you can hear, day and: night, the distant, muffled roar of pass- ing avalanches. They come and go at alb times and at all hours; each year a new .one is created, for the older ones are well known. They have claimed their blood tribute ; each has its record of brave men. done to death. These avalanches are. everywhere ; there is not a wagon road or- e mountain trail that does not cross the, path of several. On the Kaslo-Sloean road to New Denver there are five or six ; on the winter road to Sandon and Cody Creek, four; all trails to the mines cross. and recross these moving destroyers ; yet. all the seasons of greatest danger there is, more traffic on these roads and trails than. on many highways in civilize nt;n. Mar- velous escapes„are an every -day matter. No one hesitates or delays on account of the peril to be incurred. Often, very often, the snowslide passes a few feet; from the ore•laden pack team, but not. always with warning. In 'an instant. men and animals are overwhelmed and tossed like straws in the boil of the seeth- ing snow; it is merciful that death is in- stantaneous. The force of the wind created by one of these larger slides is well-nigh incredible; in the valley of the 111 eillewaet, on the line of the Canadian Pacific, tree tops are. out off by the fordo of the wind on the • opposite side of the ravine through which the avalanche descends. The snow is pressed into the hardness ofiee and liter- ally tears or grinds to powder everything in its path. 1`he many deplorable fatali- ties that have lately occurred in the Slo- can are partly due to the destruction of the timber on the wooded slopes by the fearful fires of last summer; the trees. holding up the snow and preventing sliding. We read of many brave an heroic acts ; but surely the patient cour- age that daily takes eves chances with death on the slopes and in the mountains. of the Sloean deserve more than a pass- ing tribute. The Ruling- Passion. The romantic young clerk in the dry goods emporium had fallen profoundly in, • love, and every day was a dream of de- light to him and every night was an, opalescent fantasy. It is so often that way with the young - before marrie,ge. He had wafted in the residue of his sal- ary on such condiments for .the sweet ob- ject of his hopes as the season afforded, and thought after several weeks of this lavish liberality that he had quite identi- fied himself with all her future interests. He wasn't sure, however, so on this. evening.he was to make a test of it. Everything, as far as he could see, being favorable when he arrived at her domi- cile, he at once threw himself forward by - platoons, and in an impassioned . on- slaught told her what he thought of her, and oh, now fondly and truly he .loved her, and how he could ,conceal nothing- from her of all his great feeling for ht.r, "Oh, Mr. Gingham,” she replied, "r am so sorry that I cannot reciprocate your feeling for me, but it is impossible, and I am sure if I had thought you were• going to say these things to me I should have insisted that you kept them conceal- ed from this painful exposure." The romantic young clerk gasped and gagged. It was so unexpected, but he re- covered himself quickly; "Oh, don't mention it," he responded as he gathered himself together into his. old time self once more ; "don't mention it, I pray. It's no trouble, 1 aesnre you, to show goods. le there anything' else to -day ?" And for a month after he thought his.. Adam's apple was a watermelon, such a lump there was in .his throat. Humoz statthe Altar. r. ' Some funs stories are told about the marriage services. One of them relates, how an old man brought, rather unwill- ingly, to the altar could not be induced to repeat the responses, "My good man," at length exclaimed the clergyman, " I really cannot marry you melees you do an you are told " But the an still re- mained silent, At bhis'mexpeeted hiteh the bride lost all patience with her fu- ture spouse and ,burst out with "Go on,.. you old toot ! Say it after him, just ,the same as if you'ws•Q *nn^i;tu'•him." earl-.•�--�-^•� "Never -°write anything yoti would not sign your name to," is the text which' / ought to have won the prize for the hest advice to a.newspaper man. "Will you admit you aro licked ?" yeilf• Kt the upper man in a street fight. ""No, sir," replied the under one, "I• ain't licked but—Fin satisfied,"